The Abolition of Man Book Study
Many scholars and organization have rated C.S. Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man as one of the top-ten, most important books written in the twentieth…
Course Finder: Educational Theory
A Brief History of Progressive Education
This course presents a concise history of progressive education that explains how modern education emerged around 1900 to challenge and eventually replace traditional, classical education…
How to Teach History
In this course, veteran history educator Wes Callihan traces the history of history, explores its purpose and value in the classical tradition, and discusses the…
Principles of Classical Pedagogy II
This course features master classical educator Andrew Kern of the CiRCE Institute, a coauthor of The Lost Tools of Writing and of Classical Education: The Movement Sweeping America and…
Reading and Teaching The Odyssey
In this course you will read through Homer’s The Odyssey, guided and inspired by St. John’s College tutors Dr. Eva Brann (who has tutored at St. John’s…
The Monastic Tradition of Education
In this brief course, Dr. Christopher Perrin traces the history of classical education as it resided in the Western monastic tradition. At a time when…
Essentials of Effective Teaching
In this course, Robyn Bew (upper school and academic head at the Veritas School in Richmond, VA) shares her accumulated wisdom and practical insights into…
Socratic Teaching Symposium
Effective Seminars and Socratic Discussions Mortimer Adler once said, “a lecture is an exercise where the notes of the teacher become the notes of the…
Scholé (Restful) Learning
In this course, Dr. Christopher Perrin helps educators to more deeply understand and apply the tradition of contemplation and restful learning encompassed by the word scholé. Most Americans…
Principles of Classical Pedagogy
In this course, Dr. Christopher Perrin presents the essential principles of classical pedagogy that have been part of the classical tradition of education and explains…
